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I honestly agree, too. I know it’s not in the dev update notes, but they don’t always put everything in the notes. Did a flight last night and the way the low level clouds were interacting with the topography looked better than it ever has.

Didn't delete mine. You need to download the Navigraph hub, where you can update nav data, apps inside the sim, 3rd party planes, etc..

Maybe update your drivers?

Anyone who has been to Yosemite remembers the first time they exited that cave to see that view. I think the phrase "it'll take your breath away" came from that experience. Your jaw drops to your lap and EVERYONE has to pull off at the scenic viewing area. It's truly a magical spot in our universe.

I've noticed the same thing. It ran on 2020 flawlessly, but I'm having performance issues with it as well. I have an i7-11000K, with a 3080 and 32gb ram and compared to Fenix and PMDG planes, it's the worst performer, which is a bummer because it's REALLY good. I can have the other planes pegged at 30 fps, which gets me to 60 with frame gen, and I notice my frame gen counter never pegged at 60 and ~%95 vram usage. I'm hoping when they finally release a truly 2024 native version, it'll utilize that platforms software architecture better. Have you tried using Auto FPS app?

I have an i7-1100K, 3080 and 32GB ram and honestly, going from 4K back down to 1080P has changed everything for me. After a few hours I didn't even recognize the lost resolution because I was so happy I could push the sliders and the LOD's MUCH higher than I ever could on 4K. Another drastic change for me was finally switching over to Windows 11 and essentially starting from scratch. Previously, I had years of files of both 2020 and 2024 and I believe doing a fresh start along with dropping in resolution finally gives me the sim experience I've been wanting. No hassles. Any plane. Any city. All the traffic. It just works now.

Thank goodness the A220 will have dual jetway support.

Yeah, I wish the 777 would get the same kind of makeover the 737 got.

Oh man, I'm sure PMDG is just gonna love this.

Yeah, I thought the same thing and then when I read OP had both, my viewpoint of his intentions for this post completely changed.

Kind of how I feel about the upcoming 757 that they're still planning to release on MSFS 2020. Blows my mind they haven't changed their minds, at least -- as far as I know that is still the plan.

This sim is crazy sometimes. I had GREAT performance on SU4 and was excited to see all the gains everyone in SU5 Beta were reporting. When it was released, it absolutely nerfed my sim and performance was terrible. This update however seems to have brought me back to the gains and performance I was seeing with SU4 and then some. It’s a fickle beast. What works for some definitely do not for others, but think of all the variables that go into this software and how it’s meshing with your hardware and other addons in your community folder. I’m sorry for the folks are seeing a decline because trust me — I know how that goes.

I did two test flights tonight to compare performance between the iFly and the Fenix A320 - Ketchikan to Juneau. Same settings for both flights and using AutoFPS along with GPU-Z to monitor VRAM usage. It’s such a bummer because the 737 is seemingly still a hog after the hotfix. Granted, I’m on a somewhat “outdated” rig @ i7 11-700k, 3080 with 32 gb of ram, but the test still stands. My vram usage was around 68-70% with Fenix, but pushing 97% with the 737. I love iFly’s version of the Max. I flew it for hours and hours in 2020, but I’m just wondering what’s going on with the optimization for this newest update. I’m not here to be critical, as I’m likely one of their happiest customers, but man I wish I could get this thing to run closer to comparable high-end addons. It really says something though that even when dealing with choppy performance, I still can’t get enough of this absolute banger of a plane.

I think we might have differences on how we define "huge". There is barely any difference, especially flying at a buck 50 a few thousand feet over the ground.

This is a common misconception. T(errain) Level of Detail will increase draw distance and quality for terrain, runways, roads, coast lines, etc. The best way to increase your draw distance and quality is O(bject) Level of Detail. This will increase quality of photogen and photogrammetry. If you're getting melting buildings or buildings that pop in out of nowhere, the best thing you can do (if you can, but AutoFPS helps) is to increase OLOD.

I know we can choose which servers we access, is there a best practice to discover which has the best bandwidth?

Seriously. The flight model is one of the best aspects of this plane. I have no idea what they're talking about.

I'm not getting great performance on this update. It's definitely not bad, but far more power hungry than the Fenix birds. Maybe the they'll do some further optimizing.

Wow! This is a SLAM DUNK! So much detail in this airplane and I think this the best EFB we've seen yet. I love nights like these when you get a new or updated plane and that feeling you get when you just know you have many fun hours ahead of you for the next few weeks. Thank you to all the people who updated this amazing plane...for free!

For a free update....the community is getting one heck of an upgrade in this "Service pack". I wish another well known 737 developer shared their same business practices…

I for one, thank you for your knowledgeable and insightful posts here. I wholly agree with you, too. If PMDG wants to claim they make the best plane addons and have the reputation for making the most realistic desktop sim of Boeing planes (which they do), then I think they should be listening to what you have to say. Unfortunately, PMDG isn’t the same company it used to be. They used to be pioneers who innovated and now they’re just happy to sit back, port over the same 3-4 planes to a new platform and count their cash, which is fine — but they can’t make claims that they are anywhere near the best anymore or that they care about replicating as close to a 1:1 version of the airplane on a desktop sim that they can.

What do the MR SAT taxiway markings mean? Is that code that’ll be released this Saturday? No? Ok, one can still dream though.

I would argue that their modeling and visual development has gone down hill, too. Look at the 777 flight deck. The screen brightness, when turned up, enacts this weird mix of decreasing contrast and saturation. It certainly doesn’t make it…brighter. The nav displays are like this weird black hole that have zero reflective quality. I realize they’re not meant to be reflective, but look at the Fenix displays. There’s finger print smudge marks. When you make the screens brighter, they actually get…brighter.

2024

This is hogwash. Of course I understand the motivation behind owning a business, but if you look at other developers that charge less for far superior quality, you'll finally begin to understand what I wrote and why. It's upsetting watching a company that used to put everything they had into a product and now, they're doing the bare minimum while still commanding top dollar. If you can't see this, you're either not looking close enough or a word not allowed beyond all help. edit: why did this forum allow me to say "far" earlier in my comment, but then changed it to "word not allowed" at the end? I literally wrote "far beyond all help". Why would that be censored? edit 2: but it allowed me to write it in my edit? Mods, if you have some insight, that would be great. I'm 99% sure I wrote the word "far", but I'm 100% certain I didn't swear or use a word that anyone would find offensive.